BGU | MY PATH, Haim Doron, MD

TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication ......................................................................................................................................................3 Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................................4 Table of Contents .........................................................................................................................................5 Editors’ Note – Profs. Shifra Shvarts and Gabi Bin Nun .................................................................7 Translator’s Note – Daniella Ashkenazy ...............................................................................................9 English Edition Editor’s Note – Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD .................................................... 10 Foreword – Prof. Ehud Davidson ........................................................................................................ 11 Prologue ....................................................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 2 - First Steps in the Health System in Israel .................................................................. 15 First Years in the Negev-at Kibbutz Gvar’am; In Beer Sheva; The Plan to Bring Doctors from Latin America to the Negev; On the Eve of My Next Roles- My Identification with Clalit and Its Founding Principles; From Beer Sheva to London; District Physician for the Negev Chapter 3 - The History of Establishment of a School of Medicine in the Negev ................. 24 First Strides towards Establishment of the Medical school; The Question of an Additional Medical school in Israel; The Berenson Commission - Haifa or Beer Sheva? Soroka’s Attitude and Approach to Medical Education and Collaboration between Us; From Zichron-Yaakov to Establishment of the School of Medicine in Beer Sheva; My Outlook on a Medical school in Beer Sheva- 43 Years after its Founding. Chapter 4 - Clalit’s Directorate ............................................................................................................. 36 Dual-Management in Clalit; Introducing a Regional Model; Circumstances Surrounding My Appointments in Clalit’s Directorate; My Path in the Halls of Clalit. Chapter 5 - Vitalizing Family Medicine in Israel ............................................................................ 41 My Outlook on Family Medicine; Vitalizing Family Medline in Israel; Physician-Nurse Team; The In-Service Training for Clinic Physicians; Integration between Hospital and Community; Specialization in Family Medicine; A Major in Community Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Chapter 6 - Building Clalit’s Hospital Network ............................................................................... 47 Addressing the Physical Plant and Professionalism of Hospitals; Moshe Soroka - Architect of the Hospitalization System in Israel; The Professional Level of Hospitals; The Emek Hospital in Afula in the Jezreel Valley; The New Carmel Hospital in Haifa; The Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba; Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva; Schneider Children’s Medical Center; The Sharon Hospital in Petach Tikva; Kaplan Hospital in Rechovot; Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva; Yoseftal Hospital in Eilat and the Sharm El Sheikh Area of Sinai. Chapter 7 - Other Hospitals ................................................................................................................... 62 Hospitalization in Ashdod; Hospitals in Jerusalem; Hadassah Hospitals; Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem; Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem. Chapter 1 - From Argentina to Israel: Personal Background ...................................................... 13

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